Winnebago County will transition to efileIL for all Civil Filings
effective August 30, 2018.

The current FCE E-filing portal used by attorneys will no longer be
available on August 29th at 5:00 pm. All users will be
required to efile in civil cases from an approved provider. Service
providers may be found at http://Efile.illinoiscourts.gov/service-providers.htm

Marcia M.
Meis, Director of the Administrative Office of Illinois Courts, and Eugene G.
Doherty, Chief Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court, are pleased to
announce that the 17th Circuit Judges have selected attorney
Jennifer J. Clifford as Associate Judge of the 17th Judicial
Circuit. This associate judge vacancy was created as result of the
retirement of Associate Judge Brian Dean Shore. Ms. Clifford will take
her oath of office on Monday, December 3, 2018.

Commenting on
the selection, Chief Judge Eugene G. Doherty stated, “Ms. Clifford is a
talented, respected, and experienced attorney. Her extensive trial
experience makes her a great fit in the courtroom, and her involvement in
educational programming to advance the legal profession makes her particularly
well suited for judicial office. We look forward to her service as a
judge in our circuit.”

“I am extremely
honored and humbled by this appointment,” said Ms. Clifford. “I have loved serving the people of the 17th Judicial
Circuit as an Assistant State’s Attorney for the first 20 years of my career
and will miss it greatly. However, I am excited about and appreciative of this
new opportunity to continue to serve this community as an associate judge.”

Ms. Clifford
received her undergraduate degree in Rhetoric and English from the University
of Illinois in 1993, and her Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois in
1998. Ms. Clifford’s legal career has been dedicated in the Winnebago
County State’s Attorney’s Office, where she has served as an Assistant State’s
Attorney since 1998, and has held the position of Assistant Deputy State’s
Attorney since 2013.

In addition
to her regular caseload, Ms. Clifford has been responsible for organizing
in-house trainings for the Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s Office and has
provided trainings for the Rockford Police Department, the Children’s Advocacy
Centers of Illinois, and the Arc of Winnebago, Ogle and Boone
Counties. Since 2007, she has served as a faculty presenter at the
statewide Basic Trial Advocacy Course presented by the Office of the Illinois
Appellate Prosecutor.

Jennifer Clifford is a member of the Winnebago County
Bar Association. She has served as a volunteer mentor in connection with
the Court’s Lawyer to Lawyer Mentoring Program. Her involvement with community
and civic organizations include memberships on the Board of Directors of
Winnebago County Kids’ Place from 2012 to present and the Arc of Winnebago,
Boone and Ogle Counties from 2015 to present; she currently serves as the
president of both of these non-profit organizations.